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    1. “We had a boot camp,” I say


    2. vegetation, soaked through the sole of her boot


    3. ‘You like her, then?’ he asked with a forced casualness, his head buried in the boot of his car


    4. He kicked me up the bum with his huge boot and it felt like my arse was breaking


    5. the already sticking boot release with the heel of his right hand, and heaved at the


    6. infinite number of tufts woven into the boot carpets of this modern, global,


    7. Aston Martin to put his Cuban heeled boot through the floor, and he duly obliged


    8. He kicked a gnawed chicken bone out from under his boot


    9. ground the chicken bone to dust slowly and deliberately under the heel of his boot


    10. The silence was broken by the sound of Smiler’s boot cap thwacking into the plastic water bottle

    11. I told myself that I had neither the energy nor the will to worry any more I did still feel a slight chill and quickening of the pulse with every tread of a boot on the ladder outside of my cell, but it was different now


    12. Some weeks after receiving that first message, with breakfast due any minute, I heard heavy boot steps and then a door slam open


    13. Robbie was staying with us, which meant a continuance of that other relationship, the one with his fist and his boot cap, but it was no matter


    14. Steven considered this for a moment before prodding my foot with the toe of his boot


    15. I opened my eyes and saw Robbie begin to arc his boot towards my chest


    16. Instinctively I tried to absorb the blow, and in doing so I grabbed hold of Robbie’s boot


    17. The driver of this last example of a long since fallen British automotive empire splashed disconsolately towards the rear of the vehicle, depressed the already sticking boot release with the heel of his right hand, and heaved at the tailgate with his left


    18. He seemed to know instinctively that eye of the storm would come from the east, from the direction that lay behind him, in his long distant past, and slumped forward as he was, he began, as he always did in such circumstances, to count the tufts in the grey and threadbare boot carpet


    19. Out on the hard shoulder, cocooned within the thin metallic hull of his dilapidated Austin Metro, the small wee man in tweeds and corduroy had now counted for nearly an hour, but instead of marshalling his thoughts towards the infinite number of tufts woven into the boot carpets of this modern, global, automotive world, he found now that his concentration wavered


    20. The ribbon of wet sheen running towards the horizon begged the driver of the Aston Martin to put his Cuban heeled boot through the floor, and he duly obliged

    21. He opened the passenger door and helped Kara in before stowing the baggage in the boot and encouraging Angie into the back seat


    22. The sharp retort of metalled boot heels struck out at the early morning stillness, announcing the arrival of Danton and his scowling, out of breath companion to every inmate as they bore down on the door at the end of the corridor like cannon balls, casting their grotesquely elongated shadows across the floor and up the walls


    23. upon the laboured, collarless breath of weary, boot sore sleep


    24. expecting the familiar tread of his boot,


    25. has spilled inside it’s carrier bag and leaked all over the boot


    26. and your youngest will only get changed in the boot of the car


    27. and slip boot slopes of their battered home


    28. a boot in the sand, slow recognition, a GI’s boot,


    29. Our driver began unloading packages and provisions from the boot and seemed to take forever


    30. On Saturday and Sunday mornings for the rest of that summer you would have found Cyberia pushing shopping trolleys full of used clothing in the direction of car boot sales full of eager, budget priced consumers

    31. She had seen them hanging around the car boot sale all morning but thought nothing much about their presence other than that they exuded the normally confused menace of seventeen year old boys


    32. The businessman stopped his car, told the fisherman to wait and with the help of the two suited gentlemen, he put the screaming woman’s suitcases in the boot and opened one of the rear passenger doors for her so that she could get in


    33. He was convinced that if the tree was chopped down he could make real use of the land and be rid of the screaming rooks to boot


    34. “To think that we should see an Amazonian Fritillary, and a red one to boot


    35. ‘I think it will go in the boot of the car,’ Gary said, after a moment’s thought, ‘though we may have to put some of it on the back seat


    36. ‘We’ll need to get moving soon, don’t you think?’ I said as he puts the last box into the boot and shuts the lid


    37. Then he struck the sole of each boot once with the flat of his


    38. boot soles as thick as tyre treads


    39. of a hand tooled Moroccan leather boot


    40. Karen put on the left boot, fully expecting havoc to break out, but

    41. ‘You completely knocked it out of my head when I arrived; I’ve got a present for you in the boot of the car


    42. full of used clothing in the direction of car boot sales full of eager,


    43. woman’s suitcases in the boot and opened one of the rear passenger


    44. should see an Amazonian Fritillary, and a red one to boot


    45. Instead, he walks round to the back of the car, opens the boot, takes off his shoes and puts on a pair of Wellington boots


    46. He checks the surrounding area for scraps of torn clothing, for personal items, but finds nothing other than puddled boot prints and the tracks of a wheelbarrow tyre


    47. Where are you going?’ he said, waiting by the boot for me to unlock the car


    48. ‘What on earth have you got in here? Rocks?’ Dave asked five minutes later, lifting the suitcase out of the boot


    49. and send you running with his boot print on your


    50. ’ Sheila commented, pushing a soft clod with her boot














































    1. She heard the sound of booted feet running over carpet


    2. Suited and booted, they both looked like a million dollars, with their


    3. out in every direction, her booted feet pummelling anything and


    4. She leaned heavily into his support and kicked suddenly; her high-laced booted foot smashed Mr


    5. He'll have him booted from the Order for sure


    6. She was certain she heard the clomping of booted feet up the corridor outside


    7. He took his laptop from its usual resting place in the sideboard drawer and booted up


    8. He booted his mount into a swift gallop as horns began to sound behind him


    9. He booted his horse into a charge, and the Dremelden followed in a thundering of hooves


    10. And, again, I booted him into the air

    11. The NRA publicly attacked federal agents as “jack booted thugs” in political ads


    12. If he was totally deaf, they would have booted him out of the Army


    13. Hearing booted feet dogging my steps, I span about in alarm


    14. AJ and Hobbs were suited and booted up to the nines although AJ had the lead in style terms over his older mentor


    15. was going to get booted out it would not be in front of the other


    16. and spreading her heavily booted feet to gain purchase in the snow,


    17. Medicaid again paid, but only after I re-enrolled Mike who had been booted out in March when DSS discovered a $2k mutual fund that he had forgotten about and of which I had never heard


    18. Placing his booted foot on the still wiggling thing he waited till the beheaded body finally went limp


    19. bed as it booted up


    20. penitentiary,” The Mythos booted up and veered out of the

    21. booted out of the RKU if the Ultra had been harmed in anyway


    22. Then suited and booted they attended the function with her political mentor Sean Healy and his wife Maura


    23. "As his spirit hovered, the sound of booted feeted on the few stairs leading to the cellar was heard; and he listened to the call of the officers of the law directing them within


    24. Suddenly they heard timber crack as Alex booted the door one more time


    25. Conan disappeared through the door opposite that one opening upon the gallery, and Valeria leaned back with her hands clasped behind her head, and thrust her booted legs out in front of her


    26. She turned toward the skull, which still glowed and pulsed on the floor, and was reaching a booted toe tentatively toward it, when the man who called himself Techotl sprang forward with a cry


    27. I booted the door to the ladies open to find Kate in the corner and this bloke in the way of the door attempting to block her way out


    28. I booted him out of the door, off the porch, and into the street


    29. Apprehension about being booted out of her sleeping


    30. ” He said while she booted the computer

    31. I’ll probably get sued or at least booted out with my books on the next visit


    32. He was booted out of the United Kingdom and Germany for his habit


    33. After excitement, then fear, anger and hatred came next to Maria, who kicked with one booted foot the head of the dead infiltrator


    34. will gradually forget the booted model


    35. That can change when they are booted out of a company


    36. Even if you were fortunate to avoid that discipline problem, you may have had teachers in your department who weren’t much help to you, were simply annoying or should have gone on Survivor – and not gotten booted off the island, ever


    37. Bush booted her out of the staged press conferences because she asked too many good questions


    38. After going through one transfer and one junior officer, the Polish general answered in a polite but guarded tone: while the Polish resistance was most thankful for the Time Patrol having all but booted the Germans out of Warsaw, tensions had been starting to appear about the alleged preferential treatment the Jews of Warsaw were getting from the Time Patrol, compared to the help given to non-Jewish Polish citizens


    39. If a reporter is allowed on the scene and reports what is actually happening, his coverage may not only be censured but he could also be booted out of the country


    40. There, he booted up his Macbook Pro and sent a two-word email to an address he'd committed to memory: Good morning

    41. After what seemed like an eternity, the computer was finally booted


    42. beneath their booted feet? Is that not why we have a congress


    43. of their massive booted thunder


    44. The noise of booted feet approaching was followed by a man’s voice speaking in accented English to the thirteen year-old girl still convulsing on the deck


    45. Tires squealed, the sound of car doors booted open, shouts, a crash, a shatter of


    46. While Star parked Bill’s scooter, Max went to their room and booted up his main laptop


    47. ” replied Max and switched it on, passing it to her as it booted up


    48. In the bitter years ahead, the German people would look back at this time and wonder if that gigantic dream with its loud mouthed vulgarity, and jack booted cruelty could conceivably have taken place


    49. ‘’If you commies thought that you had problems with General Dows, then you should get the hell out and return home as fast as possible…before you get your asses booted all the way back to Moscow


    50. I was already suited and booted as I always carry a clean change of clothes in the boot of the car












































    1. “My computer is still booting up,” Henry explained


    2. Maybe he shouldn’t have yelled quite so loud? Maybe he shouldn’t have said anything at all? Maybe he should have come in early to give his computer a head start in booting up? What was he supposed to be doing again? Looking for the sales report!


    3. As Gonzalez sat watching the screen, waiting for the computer to finish booting up, he smiled to himself


    4. The Communists now have a strong hold on the whole of the Korean Peninsula and booting them out would require from us a military effort of huge proportions


    5. “The AI simulator is booting up for the first time and it has to


    6. her and his house and booting the door in and


    7. Fate was not only pointing the way but booting from behind


    8. What under the heavens he did it for, I cannot tell, but his next movement was to crush himself—boots in hand, and hat on—under the bed; when, from sundry violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his boots


    1. Her big winter boots were still here too


    2. Some hand tooled leather cowboy boots sit on the sand floor by an old chest


    3. He had a thick and detailed metal stick strapped over his shoulders, shiny black low-calf boots and several shiny black canisters strapped to his upper thighs


    4. It is peaceful with no sound of cars and only the crunch of our walking boots disturbing the peace of the countryside


    5. boots, he would be the one


    6. Her boots, brown and calf length, heeled but slim and forgiving, were the only


    7. boots, reminding her as they did of her mother and father’s glinting lasciviousness


    8. but who would need money on the mountain? He did need good boots, but that was


    9. He was a tall, lean man with only a clean goatee, a pencil mustache and a brush of brown hair, dressed in his trimly tailored commandant's uniform with shined boots and fez


    10. At first, when the long hours of silence were rudely interrupted by activity out in the corridor, I did not believe in the sounds that came from the world outside of my cell: boots on ladder rungs, a scuff of rubber soles across rough concrete, and finally the sound of a key in a lock

    11. Later that day, later that night, at some point in the expanse of black time, I heard the trap door swing open and then the familiar scrape of boots on the rungs of the ladder


    12. I dared to look towards the doorway, where I saw boots and green fatigues but they were different


    13. After a few seconds he looked down at his boots and said, “Yeah, he’s a bit of a one for accidents


    14. I tried to unravel time in some vain hope of stopping the days from ticking over into the new shift pattern, but the inevitable morning dawned with the usual sounds of boots on concrete, sliding locks and the dull metallic alarm of my breakfast tray being laid on the floor by my mattress


    15. I listened to the scrape of his boots on the rungs of the ladder


    16. Boots and combat fatigues


    17. Was I about to die with my boots on?


    18. How would they know it was me? Might they not think that the guards had cottoned-on to them and were playing a joke? Were they even now expecting the doors to slam open and the night air to be filled with the dull thud of fists and boots and wooden stocks?


    19. From the far end of the room we heard the sound of thick-soled boots on the raised flooring


    20. The boots paused as though debating this sad lack of forethought

    21. His worldly goods fetched a laughable sum, but who would need money on the mountain? He did need good boots, but that was all


    22. He bought reasonably good boots, scrimping even then to make sure that he had a bottle or two for the journey


    23. watching the unknown names disappear to their car boots and West End bars,


    24. of heavy shouldered travellers and of thumping cab boots,


    25. In a red raincoat, pyjamas and Barbie boots,


    26. staring at the tracks, made by his heavy soled boots,


    27. My boots thick and heavy with clinging sand,


    28. He busied himself loosening her boots, lifting one foot at a time to draw them off, all the time casting glances at her face as if measuring and assessing her state of mind


    29. His boots had a buckle over the foot and at the top of the


    30. The water came upto halfway on his boots

    31. The woman began to remove his boots; Jerry and Steve removed the rest of his clothes


    32. She approached, quacked and pecked at the boots of


    33. With the fall of my boots


    34. My boots and trouser legs are cocooned in silk,


    35. She said the winters were very cold up there so he looked for some long johns, and some ski clothes, gloves, thermal socks, and ski boots


    36. of the diesel engine in boots that have a stubborn


    37. It was getting colder, so she put on some socks and her black boots


    38. for new boots in January sales


    39. Footsteps leave a heavy tread of boots


    40. sand in his boots, sweating, hot air on dry skin,

    41. you can always hear the sound of Jack Boots


    42. in between the sound of my boots falling heavily


    43. ’ I said, wincing as I ease my boots off


    44. It was another foot, but tiny, belonging to a little old lady entirely over-dressed in black headscarf, ankle-length skirts, embroidered waistcoat and leather boots


    45. ’ I replied, grateful that I shall be able to put my boots on


    46. The waterproofs were good, but the bottoms of my hosen are sodden and my boots have been dryer


    47. They were interrupted by the sound of boots on the deck, two hefty guys in dressed long loincloths and capes


    48. Gilla has lent me some boots while mine are ‘softened’ by some process I have been told I don’t want to know about


    49. My own boots – softened so that I may wear them without getting blisters straight away – plus an old pair of Gilla’s will have to suffice in the footware stakes


    50. I looked down at my guilty boots and avoided his eyes, trying to think of some way to tell him














































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    Synonyms for "boot"

    boot kick kicking iron boot iron heel the boot automobile trunk luggage compartment trunk bang charge flush rush thrill bring up reboot drive knock shove slam fire throw out high shoe

    "boot" definitions

    footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg


    compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools


    the swift release of a store of affective force


    protective casing for something that resembles a leg


    an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg


    a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed


    the act of delivering a blow with the foot


    kick; give a boot to


    cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes